
My hard drive was split into a 80 GiB partition for OS X and a 40 GiB partition for Windows 7. I used the Boot Camp assistant to prepare the hard drive for installation. I’m not going to loose big words on this. Windows 7 SP 1 on Boot Camp partition (40 GiB).Apple MacBook Pro 15″, February 2011 model, equipped with an 120 GiB SSD instead of a 500 GiB hard drive.To begin with, here’s a short summary of my specs: I’m not trying to duplicate, my focus is to show what I had to do to get my setup working for me. So my today’s post will be sort of an aggregate of all these posts before. The best and most complete one is IMHO luckypiplav’s howto, as it already covers most of the issues and caveats.
#Vmware fusion for mac cannot open the disk boot camp.vmdk for free#

Well, what a waste of valuable disk space.

So I had the same Windows installed again within VirtualBox. On the other hand, I use OS X for my primary work, but again, sometimes there’s no way around Windows. The reason for it being simple: I need it for some games 😉 I always used to have Windows installed through Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro.
